Archives for
2012

Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the world's most popular browser, but it and Mozilla's Firefox lost a lot of market share to Google's Chrome in 2011, which is now firmly in second place. According to StatCounter's 2011 data, Internet Explorer ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Internet Explorer Still the Most Popular Browser...

A source at HP has sent us a mysterious teaser video for an upcoming product dubbed "Spectre." The video gives away very little details about the device, but near the end we can clearly make out a thin laptop computer, with what appears to be the usu...

Want to know who will win the Iowa Caucus? There may now be a more effective tool than exit polls. Twitter, which has already proved an effective tool for gauging reactions to everything from Osama bin Laden's death to Kim Kardashian's divorce, is no...

Want a BlackBerry PlayBook? This might be a good time to buy one, especially if you were looking at the models with more storage memory. RIM has slashed the price of all PlayBook models to $299 in a limited-time offer that ends Feb. 4. The deal isn't...

Researchers from the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo have developed a car seat that can recognize a person when they sit in it. Using a series of 360 sensors to measure how much pressure people place on the seat, a personalized p...

Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent nearly two decades as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world. T...

Can Twitter predict the outcome of the Iowa Caucus better than national polls? Mashable has partnered with Global Point Research to answer that question. According to the latest NBC News-Marist national poll, ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has...

On Tuesday morning, the world learned that the account bearing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's wife's name, Wendi Deng Murdoch, is not run by her or anyone connected to her. And less than two hours after the revelation, Twitter admitted in a tweet that ...

There may be more truth than you'd think to the James Bond-like spy gadgets in movies. Entertainment blog English Russia released photos of a KGB spy kit that includes a lip stick gun, pipe gun, cyanide gun and other various small firearms. Check out...

Shane Snow is a New York-based tech journalist and co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for brand publishers and journalists. It’s never been easier to become a publisher, but being a publisher ain’t easy. Today, the scarce resource in the publ...

Scientists from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have come up with a unique cotton material that can clean itself when left under ordinary sunlight. The fabric includes a coat of nanoparticles made from a compound of titanium dioxide, nitrogen,...

A new report suggests that Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, is looking to make some changes to its board of directors, changes that could cast aside current co-chairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. According to the Financia...

In the physical world, people take notes and share documents during meetings. Video conference service iMeet is aiming to give virtual meetings the same option through an integration with versatile note-taking service Evernote. iMeet users can now ac...

Facebook may be a good way to bring people closer together, but according to a recent study it might also drive married couples apart. The study, conducted by Divorce-Online, reveals couples are increasingly citing Facebook in divorce petitions. One-...

Careening birds were a popular gift this holiday season. Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons combined for 6.5 million downloads on Christmas Day, said game-maker Rovio. That's more than three times the amount of downloads it had in 2...

Carmen Delessio is CTO of Layercake, an NYC startup focused on helping parents to quickly and easily manage their photos and digital memories. Request a beta invite at GetLayercake.com. Carmen's Kindle Fire and other apps can be found at BffMedia.com...

Chances are you've already used YouTube as a music player. But how much fun was that? You had to return to the page every time a song ended, search for the next one and then load often-crude comments and clutter along with your song. A 23-year-old so...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's sudden boost in the polls is more obvious on Twitter than in traditional national news polls. Could the spike in positive sentiment be because of the V-neck sweater vests that Santorum routinely wears...

Happy New Year! If you're having trouble getting back to the grind at work today, or missed a few of our digital media resources while you were celebrating, we have our usual roundup for you to catch up on. Still feeling nostalgic about 2011? From te...

According to Amazon, the Kindle Fire led the Kindle line to record-breaking sales of 4 million devices over the holiday season. You have to think that at least some of those shoppers opted for the Fire in lieu of an iPad, and one investment bank says...

The end is finally nigh for IE6. Microsoft announced Tuesday that Internet Explorer 6 usage in the U.S. has dropped below 1% and is at 7.7% worldwide. "So as we kick off 2012, we call on the rest of the world – make it your new year’s resolution to e...

Codecademy, a startup that uses interactive online lessons to turn anyone into a computer programmer, has signed up 97,000 students in less than 48 hours for its New Year's resolution class Code Year. That's more than twice as many students as were e...

Like many marketers advertising in and around the Super Bowl this year, Pizza Hut's game plan calls for a little Facebook. The pizza chain introduced the TV spot below on Jan. 1 that threw down the gauntlet to fans: Do your own rendition of the featu...

Twitter is on fire with tweets about the Iowa caucus. Politicians are reaching out to Iowans for their support, journalists are offering a behind-the-scenes look at life covering the caucus and Iowans have been declaring their support for a candidate...

If you spent part of the holiday season trying, unsuccessfully, to get your grandparents on Skype, then Biscotti TV Phone may be the answer to your video chat prayers. It’s a relatively effective $199 HDTV-based solution that requires no monthly fees...

Perhaps sensing a shift in the zeitgeist, The New York Times has run no less than three stories over the past week about unplugging from the Internet. In the most widely read, Pico Iyer's "The Joy of Quiet," the author posits the idea that solitude i...

Facebook apologized Monday to a reproductive rights activist who posted detailed written instructions for a Do It Yourself abortion. The apology said the instructions were deleted on accident because they were mistakenly thought to be in violation of...

After announcing a new round of funding Tuesday, Klout told Mashable the undisclosed amount raised was a step up from previous rounds and that it now has the resources to work on a mobile initiative. Klout -- which measures a social media user's onli...

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